GOING WHERE?
With the monumental faces of a Congolese man and woman, my aim is to
turn the attention towards the individual and celebrate young people
who represent the future – not only in Congo. This artwork is an
acknowledgement of human vulnerability, penetrated as it is by greed
and a cynical global market economy.

Going where ? Version I and II. Acrylic paint on print 250x350cm. Completed on location for The Yango Biennale 2014 in Congo Kinshasa DRC.

Going where? / Où aller? Version III.
This version is originally based on a portrait of Edo Bumba, a musician from Congo living in Sweden. I had just completed the two monumental versions of ”Going where?” when I started to work with this new piece at the end of my stay in Kinshasa. The idea for the grid over the face came from the grid in ”Going where? I and II”. As I was finishing my contribution to the Yango Biennale at the monument of ”Échangeur de Limite”, one of the biennale sites, I realized that this new painting was intimately related with the unique site and its very special history. For example, the grid in the painting has a connection with the grid of bars from a hole in the floor inside the gallery. This bars cover an opening in the ceiling of the lower parts of the Échangeur de Limite, cellars that operated as a prison until recently. So, if the grid which partly penetrates the faces of the young Congolese looks like the rationally drawn borders between the countries of the African continent, the grid in front of the face in ”Going where? Version III” seem to be putting the person in the painting into prison!